I fail to see how marital status has anything to do with parenting.
My new wife loves my daughter as her own, as does my ex-wife's new husband. What's your point? If all you're trying to do is prove that you're a moron with no children and even less sense, than congratulations. You win.
I can't speak for what happens when my daughter is at her mom's house, but when she's with me she I don't let her play video games at all unless I'm playing with her. She's eight right now, and I don't plan to let her game alone for at least a few years. For all I know she won't even be interested in video games by then, but if she is I'm sure I'll still play with her at least part of the time. I want her to view video games as a healthy social activity, not something you do in the basement with the blinds drawn like so many nerds.
Flamebait? Why? Because he's right? Huge corporations and huge government are symbiotic organisms, feeding off each other to get what they want: more money for corporations, more power for governments.
Actually, that's not what the appeals system is for at all. The appeals process cannot introduce any new evidence. The only thing the appeals process is for is to determine if there were errors in procedure.
Wait, I thought Democrats were party with open arms and Republicans were the ones without a sense of humor? Funny how the two sides really aren't different at all.
It may not be a new concept, but now there are real consequences. Getting teased in high school for having green hair is not the same as being tortured for being Muslim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
Considering we're supposed to be a civil society based on justice, torturing people for no reason and later saying "Oops, sorry. Our bad." just doesn't cut it.
The Sims was innovative when it was new. What's more likely: that Will Wright has slaved away personally over every one of the dozens of Sims expansion packs or that Electronic Arts controlled the massive expansions for that series?
Wright had as much to do with Sims expansions as John Carmack does with community Quake mods.
Given the current state of the US, can you say with a straight face that you believe "the legislative process is working properly?" Current copyright laws have been purchased by large copyright holders with almost no input by the voters. It is NOT working properly in any sense and therefore in this case, jury nullification is the right thing to do.
You'd have to be a fool to believe that any re-inventing of the internet wouldn't have all kinds of government controls layered on top of it. The first time around the internet caught most people by surprise. Now politicians know the power of a worldwide computer network and will not hesitate to control every aspect of it they way they currently do with broadcast media.
Yep, Folio Views is another one, but I have no personal experience with it. I wrote two commercial software packages (CD and internet legal research systems) using ISYS and dtSearch, and I'm familiar with Folio because Lexis was a competitor of the company I worked for. I'm not sure what it's complete capabilities are, but I have to imagine it's comparable.
I haven't used Lucene, but as for commercial software I've used dtSearch and ISYS and they are both excellent full text search engines. Both have web interfaces as well as desktop programs, and SDKs are available for custom applications. They scale to a massive number of documents per index, in a large variety of formats and are very fast. They have additional features like returning documents of all types in HTML so no reader is required on the front end other than a browser so legacy formats are easier to access.
Unfortunately the pigs will simply replace judgment and discretion with the phrase "I was just following the orders." If the computer spits out a report that some guy was following a young girl, he's doomed. Hell, a man can barely get a fair trial as it is right now when he's been accused of a sex crime. What happens when there's additional "evidence" in the form of a computer generated Suspicious Activity report?
And I have canceled my cable service. I don't watch TV at all now, because I don't value their service enough to sit through ads, especially at the price Comcast was brutalizing my wallet.
While I think the ATHF incident overblown, I don't think this one was. If LEDs were evidence of an item not being a bomb, it'd be a simple matter for truly dangerous people to include LEDs and easily avoid suspicions. After all, it's got lights, it couldn't be a bomb.
The main difference between the ATHF scare and this one is that the first one was some people not thinking before doing something that was not intended to raise alarms. This on the other hand, between this womans actions in conjunction with her "art", it sounds like she was looking to get a reaction. She got one.
I'm normally very critical towards law enforcement, but on this I agree 100%. Sounds to me like she was looking for a reaction, she shouldn't be surprised that she got one.
Who said anything about terrorists? When a person is wrongly arrested by the police, they will invariably throw some bullshit charges at them just to cover their asses and make it look like they're taking down a hardened criminal. The kind of charges that apply to anybody. Resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, etc. I can imagine local prosecutors salivate over the possibility of having access to a federal database of "suspicious" activities of every American. Just think of the charges they could cook up!
In a free country it doesn't matter why you're carrying "a number of small flashlights" because it's nobody's goddamn business. This hyper-sensitivity some people have now to anything that's even slightly out of the ordinary is ridiculous.
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I fail to see how marital status has anything to do with parenting.
My new wife loves my daughter as her own, as does my ex-wife's new husband. What's your point? If all you're trying to do is prove that you're a moron with no children and even less sense, than congratulations. You win.
I can't speak for what happens when my daughter is at her mom's house, but when she's with me she I don't let her play video games at all unless I'm playing with her. She's eight right now, and I don't plan to let her game alone for at least a few years. For all I know she won't even be interested in video games by then, but if she is I'm sure I'll still play with her at least part of the time. I want her to view video games as a healthy social activity, not something you do in the basement with the blinds drawn like so many nerds.
They're way ahead of you: http://www.news.com/Democrats-Colleges-must-police-copyright%2C-or-else/2100-1028_3-6217943.html?tag=nefd.lede
Flamebait? Why? Because he's right? Huge corporations and huge government are symbiotic organisms, feeding off each other to get what they want: more money for corporations, more power for governments.
Actually, that's not what the appeals system is for at all. The appeals process cannot introduce any new evidence. The only thing the appeals process is for is to determine if there were errors in procedure.
Wait, I thought Democrats were party with open arms and Republicans were the ones without a sense of humor? Funny how the two sides really aren't different at all.
It may not be a new concept, but now there are real consequences. Getting teased in high school for having green hair is not the same as being tortured for being Muslim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar
Considering we're supposed to be a civil society based on justice, torturing people for no reason and later saying "Oops, sorry. Our bad." just doesn't cut it.
The Sims was innovative when it was new. What's more likely: that Will Wright has slaved away personally over every one of the dozens of Sims expansion packs or that Electronic Arts controlled the massive expansions for that series?
Wright had as much to do with Sims expansions as John Carmack does with community Quake mods.
5 pfennig? That's like $220,000 today. I can see now where the jury in the Jammie Thomas case got their figure. It makes perfect sense.
Given the current state of the US, can you say with a straight face that you believe "the legislative process is working properly?" Current copyright laws have been purchased by large copyright holders with almost no input by the voters. It is NOT working properly in any sense and therefore in this case, jury nullification is the right thing to do.
You'd have to be a fool to believe that any re-inventing of the internet wouldn't have all kinds of government controls layered on top of it. The first time around the internet caught most people by surprise. Now politicians know the power of a worldwide computer network and will not hesitate to control every aspect of it they way they currently do with broadcast media.
Yep, Folio Views is another one, but I have no personal experience with it. I wrote two commercial software packages (CD and internet legal research systems) using ISYS and dtSearch, and I'm familiar with Folio because Lexis was a competitor of the company I worked for. I'm not sure what it's complete capabilities are, but I have to imagine it's comparable.
I haven't used Lucene, but as for commercial software I've used dtSearch and ISYS and they are both excellent full text search engines. Both have web interfaces as well as desktop programs, and SDKs are available for custom applications. They scale to a massive number of documents per index, in a large variety of formats and are very fast. They have additional features like returning documents of all types in HTML so no reader is required on the front end other than a browser so legacy formats are easier to access.
Sigh.
Ignore the above, I haven't had my Mt Dew yet today.
"are not sent"
I should proofread before clicking submit. A system like Digg where you have 60 seconds to edit a post would be nice though.
Buy filters so no nipples or curse words are sent over the airwaves?
Unfortunately the pigs will simply replace judgment and discretion with the phrase "I was just following the orders." If the computer spits out a report that some guy was following a young girl, he's doomed. Hell, a man can barely get a fair trial as it is right now when he's been accused of a sex crime. What happens when there's additional "evidence" in the form of a computer generated Suspicious Activity report?
And I have canceled my cable service. I don't watch TV at all now, because I don't value their service enough to sit through ads, especially at the price Comcast was brutalizing my wallet.
And yes, I am the guy from the Onion article.
While I think the ATHF incident overblown, I don't think this one was. If LEDs were evidence of an item not being a bomb, it'd be a simple matter for truly dangerous people to include LEDs and easily avoid suspicions. After all, it's got lights, it couldn't be a bomb.
The main difference between the ATHF scare and this one is that the first one was some people not thinking before doing something that was not intended to raise alarms. This on the other hand, between this womans actions in conjunction with her "art", it sounds like she was looking to get a reaction. She got one.
I'm normally very critical towards law enforcement, but on this I agree 100%. Sounds to me like she was looking for a reaction, she shouldn't be surprised that she got one.
If the RIAA can claim that pirates are helping terrorists in their press releases, why can't their victims play the pity card? Turnabout is fair play.
Yeah, like drugs. I hear that war is going really well too. *rolls eyes*
Maybe you hadn't noticed, but more Americans are killed every year in automobile accidents than have EVER been killed by terrorists.
Who said anything about terrorists? When a person is wrongly arrested by the police, they will invariably throw some bullshit charges at them just to cover their asses and make it look like they're taking down a hardened criminal. The kind of charges that apply to anybody. Resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, etc. I can imagine local prosecutors salivate over the possibility of having access to a federal database of "suspicious" activities of every American. Just think of the charges they could cook up!
In a free country it doesn't matter why you're carrying "a number of small flashlights" because it's nobody's goddamn business. This hyper-sensitivity some people have now to anything that's even slightly out of the ordinary is ridiculous.